"John McCain says he's about change too," Obama told a crowd. "So I guess his whole angle is: Watch out, George Bush -- except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, we're really going to shake things up in Washington."
"That's not change. That's just calling the same thing something different. But you can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, and it's still going to stink after eight years."
For that, John McCain says Obama is calling Palin a pig, referring a Palin's joke that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull was lipstick.
(excerpt from http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-campaign10-2008sep10,0,311675.story)
For some reasons, feminism in US has a foothold of deep hurting proportion. And McCain and his campaigners are playing dirty game to buy the hearts of these women. I do not know what Palin can bring to the table and make gender rights fairer, but beyond that, McCain is trying to get sympathetic votes, which is as pathetic as the war in Iraq.
From my point of view, it is sad to see 'democracy' degenerating into a dirty game. To me democracy represents one thing - fairness. Therefore, every individual has equal rights and opportunity to win and become the better man. For US or the world, I think we are better off to retain the form of democracy we started out with, than to degenerate into a dirtier like of it.
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